Necktie inserter



July A11, i939. D. G; EVANS 2,165,624

NEGKTIE INSEHTER Filed Aug'. l5, 1938 nuentor Patented `uly 11, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Application August 15,

2 Claims.

'I'his invention relates to means for disposing neckties of that class designed for encircling the neck of a wearer, within the outer and inner walls of a collar, either of the type permanently attached to a shirt, or of a detached collar after it has been applied around the neck of a wearer. My general object isto produce a device of the character specified by which neckwear can be properly positioned within the collar, without binding or twisting or in fact any handling of the collar, by threading the device and an attached and trailing tie, endwise through the collar until the former and the attached part of the tie have completely emerged from the other end of the collar; the device being then detached from the tie to leave the ends of the tie protruding from opposite ends of the collar.

The device may be advantageously used within any type of folded collar when around the neck of a wearer, but is especially desirable for applying neckwear to starched and so-called trubinized collars because the application can be effected quickly and easily without twisting or bending of the collar or tucking or sawing the tie into position, actions injurious to the tie and likely to cause Wrinkling or soiling of the collar.

With the general objects mentioned in View and others as will hereinafter appear, the invention consists in certain novel and useful features of construction and organization of parts as hereinafter described and claimed; and in order that it may be fully understood, reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a collar and the necktie inserter as they appear preliminary to threading the latter through the fold of the former.

Figure 2 is a similar view after the threading of the inserter has been accomplished, and also shows a tie attached to the rear end of the threader. Y

Figure 3 is a similar view, but shows the inserter after it has drawn the tie completelyV through the fold of the collar and is itself withdrawn completely from the fold, and ready to be slipped olf the tie leaving the tie in proper position around the collar.

In the said drawing, where like reference characters identify corresponding parts in all of the figures, I is a ribbon of metal, Celluloid, isinglass or the like, of sucient cross-sectional area and length to offer enough rigidity and flexibility to allow it to be threaded around a collar between the outer and inner folds thereof, when the col- 1938, Serial No. 224,866 (Cl. 223-111) lar is held in its normal arcuate position as when encircling the neck of a wearer. The ribbon is smooth and has no sharp or rough surfaces which would tend to increase the resistance when being longitudinally threaded or adjusted through 5 a collar.

One end of the ribbon is preferably formed with a guiding point 2, and the ribbon is of suicient length so that it may project at the opposite ends of the collar when the ribbon is in position therein. The trailing or rear end of the ribbon, or at other suitable point, is provided with any suitable means to which a necktie, or one end thereof, can be detachably secured.

The securing means must be sufficiently strong to insure pulling the tie into position, and in its preferred form comprises an elongated eye or slot 3, the longer axis being at substantially right angles to the longitudinal axis of the ribbon. With such a fastener the smaller end of a tie 4 is threaded through the eye and is then drawn through until there is a sufficient length of the tie on both sides of the eye to insure that the friction between the two ends of the tie on opposite sides of the eye, is substantially balanced so that there is no danger of the tie becoming disconnected when it is partially pulled through the collar.

After the inserter and the tie have attained the positions depicted in Figure 3, the tie will be found to be doubled within the collar. The operator may then grasp the short end adjacent the eye or slot as at point a, and pulls upon said short end to withdraw it and leave the tie encircled within the collar fold only by the intermediate or neck-band stretch of the tie. 'Ihe operator is then ready to detach the inserter by the withdrawal of the short end of the tie therefrom, and thus leave the tie ends projecting from the collar in proper position for use.

From the above description it will be apparent that I have produced a device embodying all of the features ofr advantage set forth as desirable, and while I have described and illustrated the preferred embodiment of the invention, it is to be understood that I reserve the right to al1 changes within the spirit of the invention and without the ambit of the prior art.

I claim:

1. The combination of a shirt and turn-down collar therefor, when in final or operative position on a wearer, of a thin, smooth, stiff, resilient strip or'ribbon completely encircling the collar between the body-portion and turn-down portion thereof and of length to project simultaneously beyond the opposite ends of the collar, one end of the strip having means whereby a flexible strip such as a neck-tie may be detachably attached to the strip.

2. The combination of a shirt and turn-down collar therefor, When in nal or operative position on a wearer, of a thin, smooth, stiff, resilient strip or ribbon completely encircling the collar between the body-portion and turn-down portion thereof and of length to project simultaneously beyond the opposite ends of the collar, one end of the strip having a smooth-Walled transverse slot through which a flexible strip, such as a 5 neck-tie may be slidably attached.

DAVID G. EVANS. 

